Quotes about Death

Dying is nothing to fear. It can be the most wonderful experience of your life. It all depends on how you've lived.

I always say that death can be one of the greatest experiences ever. If you live each day of your life right, then you have nothing to fear.

What's lost is nothing to what's found, and all the death that ever was, set next to life, would scarcely fill a cup.

One of the primary goals in life should be to prepare for death. Everything else should be secondary.

There is no part of the whole course of our Saviour Christ's life or death, but it is well worthy our looking on; and from each part in it there goeth virtue to do us good.

Though in midst of life we be Snares of death surround us.

All our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death.

There was no freedom in life, and certainly there was none in death.

The attitude of saints toward their possessions most assuredly signifies whether they continue to preserve their self life or whether they have consigned it to death.

Who would not shudder if he were given the choice of eternal death or life again as a child ? Who would not choose to die ?

Almost everybody in the neighborhood had "troubles," frankly localized and specified; but only the chosen had "complications." To have them was in itself a distinction, though it was also, in most cases, a death warrant. People struggled on for years with "troubles," but they almost always succumbed to "complications."

Young man, there is America—which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners; yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world.